A secondary school in Hertfordshire has been picked as one of the best in the country by Tatler Magazine.

Beaumont School, in St Albans, was named one of the top non fee-paying schools for 2018 by the prestigious magazine.

The Tatler Schools Guide 2018 lists the 20 best state secondary schools, which as well as the Hertfordshire school also featured sailor Sir Ben Ainslie and Alexa Chung’s alma mater Peter Symonds College in Hampshire.

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It is not hard to see why the ‘super-sleuths’ at Tatler Magazine picked Beaumont School as one of the best in the country.

Ofsted rated the school ‘outstanding’ in its previous inspection in 2014, saying: “Students receive an outstanding education at Beaumont School that prepares them extremely well for their future.”

The Tatler Schools Guide 2018 has been released

Tatler Magazine raised eyebrows when it published its first non-fee paying schools guide in 2014, stating at the time: “When we first published our first State Schools Guide the reaction was one of flabbergasted amazement... Wake up, world: these days, most “People Like Us” a) can’t necessarily afford to send our children to private schools and b) don’t necessarily want to.”